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Excerpt from Proceedings of the State Horticultural Association of Pennsylvania for 1937: Seventy-Eighth Annual Meeting, Held in Harrisburg, Pa., January 20-21, 1937 It seems highly probable that the excessive injury to Rome in this orchard and indeed in much of the state was due to the heavy crop and the fact that the fruit was not picked until November; it was the last fruit to be harvested. However, in addition to this factor, the orchard has been pushed harder by pruning, cultivation, and fertiliza tion than most Of the orchards in the county. The performance of two nearby peach orchards is interesting. In both orchards the trees ranged from 8 to 16 years old and were of the same varieties. In the one, the orchard was cultivated throughout the early summer and seeded to rye in October; in the other, cultivation was stopped in June and a heavy growth of weeds covered the orchard through the winter. Where the late cultivation created conditions un favorable for tree maturity two-thirds of the trees were killed or seriously injured. Where the heavy weed growth was undisturbed, there was no killing of trees and a good crop was produced in 1936. In all the southeastern section of Pennsylvania, the study of winter injury to fruit trees due to low temperature in 1935-36 was complicated by trunk injuries caused by low temperatures in the winter of 1934-35. Typically these injuries produced dead areas covered by unbroken bark and many growers failed to detect this until the dead bark began to come Off in 1936, so that the damage was attributed erroneously to the winter of 1935-36. The low temperatures of 1934-35 came on J an uary 28 and February 7 when minimums Of 15 to 18 degrees below zero throughout this section were from 9 to 12 degrees below those at State College and equaled or approached closely the record lows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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